$150,780,000

Department of Health and Human Services·Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

ACTION DATE2026-04-28·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75A50122C00028_7505_-NONE-_-NONE-

Award description

CARB-X GLOBAL ANTIBACTERIAL ACCELERATOR OTA

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Confidence: high

In plain English

Funds CARB-X accelerator program to develop new antibacterial drugs and combat antibiotic resistance.

Sub-sectors

antibioticsdrug-developmentpandemic-preparedness

Why this matters

Addresses critical public health threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, essential for pandemic preparedness and national biosecurity.

Supply-chain signal

Stimulates pharmaceutical R&D pipeline and biotech manufacturing capacity for novel antimicrobial compounds.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. investment in antibiotic innovation reduces dependence on foreign pharmaceutical supply chains vulnerable to geopolitical disruption.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-14. Cost: $0.001334.

Period of performance

Start

2022-06-01

End

2029-05-31

Status

activein 1112 days

Recipient

Sources

USAspending.gov — all awards for this UEI →
SAM.gov entity registration →
Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier CONT_AWD_75A50122C00028_7505_-NONE-_-NONE-.

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